The original editorial is in the LA Times, which requires free registration and which restricts posting to FR.
I still recommend that those who are interested go and read it.
"Because in these dark days of know-nothing anti-evolutionism, with religious fundamentalists occupying the White House, controlling Congress and attempting to distort the teaching of science in our schools, a powerful dose of biological reality would be healthy indeed. And this is precisely the message that chimeras, hybrids or mixed-species clones would drive home.
GENETICISTS studying human and chimpanzee DNA have concluded that a few million years ago, pre-humans and pre-chimps produced hybrids between the two species. And in the American evolutionary wars, this is good news.Of course, the very idea of ancestral human beings and chimpanzees "exchanging genes" makes people squirm, because (let's face it) this means sexual intercourse between our ancient human and animal ancestors. It is hard enough to contemplate our parents copulating; to think of our very great-grandparents not only descended from "monkeys" but having sex with them is difficult to conceive. But conceive is what they evidently did.
There is, however, an even greater source of discomfort at work here; not simple squeamishness about sex but a deeper repugnance that goes to the heart of why so many Americans continue to be so resistant to the theory of evolution. And this is why I not only welcome the news that humans and chimpanzees commingled genes in the past, I also look forward to the possibility that, thanks to advances in reproductive technology, there will be hybrids, or some other mixed human-animal genetic composite, in our future.
What is the Law?
Not to run on all fours.
That is the law.
Are we not men?
The United Critters.
Just another way to increase the Democrat base. If we have a chance we must replace Justice Stevens with a Judge with absolute allegiance to the second ammendment. Full disclosure: I personally do not own or exercise fire arms in any way whatsoever.
There was an old-time circus that featured a purported man-chimp. Not simply a mock-up, but a mysterious species at the very least.
Also- Stalin tasked at least one famous doctor (name?) with creating an ape-man species that could be bred into warriors. When the doctor failed, Stalin had him Gulag'd where he died before long.
Guys like this could only survive in a university. The real world would kill them.
As morally unhinged as this guy is, at least he admits that materialistic Darwinism doesn't have conclusive proof.
This professor must be a communist, it also makes him very interested in making huans nothing more than an animal and keenly interested in destroying God and all other religions. It is what these humanist scum do.
Oh heck, I thought they were trying to breed more Democrats...